Landscape Tutorial-How to Draw Mountains

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This video is part of my "How to draw landscapes series"

This video will show you how I like to draw mountains. The basic shape of a mountain is a triangle. You take that initial shape and morph it into a mountain by building off it.
This process starts by taking that triangle shape and replace the lines with more organic lines. This means to create curved, jagged....anything but straight direct lines.
Then from that you can start to create peaks branching off from the triangular shape to create a more interesting mountain. Then when the first mountain is created, create a few more.

After that, you create an organic/irregular line from the peak of the mountain all the way down to the base. That line will help to determine where the light and shadow will be.

Then you need to establish where your light is coming from. This is essential for the drawing to have a real life look to it.

After this comes the shading. Where you determined the light source to be is how you will shade the mountains. The side of the mountain facing the light will be lighter than the side facing away from the light source.